On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> wrote:
Yes, I remember that thread. And I don't really think this is a
valid
answer. If Gnome wants to change decades-old UI paradigms, the proper way to
do that was to add a setting that must be explicitly adjusted in order to
get the new behavior. So that everyone who feels like they want to swap what
their mouse buttons do can easily change that. Not to make the new behavior
the default and pull the rug out from everyone's feet; and make everyone who
prefers the existing behavior to go and figure out some undocumented
settings.
This topic for discussion is raised too many times, so it even become
"talk of the Linux Community". And this is not the right place to tell
how are you angry on GNOME team.
Someone agreed with their new viewings on things, and someone not. And
there's no way to please everyone.
And I just checked, I don't even have this settings.ini file in
the first
place.
Then just create it. Add `[Settings]` section, and then
`gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = false`. [1]
Two years ago all of my desktops were Gnome, like they've been
for the
previous ~15 years. They're now XFCE. Sadly, I still have to deal with
Gnome's idiocy shining through the applications that use gtk.
There was the time, then I was like you. I did'nt understood these
changes, and sticked with KDE 4. But then KDE 4 was dropped by KDE
Team and development of KDE 5 started. So I just was forced to use
GNOME because of some KDE 4 bugs, which now will never be fixes. And
only then I understood the GNOME 3 idea. All the things, which I tried
to do using *configurability* of KDE 4, GNOME Team has done for me in
GNOME 3.
[1]:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#Basic_theme_configuration